and here I go jumping in.....
So being a "non developer" but a heavy gis user - I'm all for forming
some sort of committee to help with packaging. I would like to even
learn how to do it and contribute back - most of my packaging has been a
bit....oh....not something I'm proud of but it's worked. I would love to
learn to do it right. I'm one part of a two person operation - my cohort
works with software on windows - I'm on the linux side of life. I would
probably go back to my first love of debian but the packaging has always
been more hit or miss than it has on ubuntu....and I was actually under
the impression that Debian GIS wasn't active anymore....and I'm hoping
based off these discussion I'm wrong.
Randy
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On 11/13/2013 05:58 AM, Hamish wrote:
Hi,
Alex:
and even making sure we have 1 person who is both DebianGIS and
Ubuntugis for coordination.
without getting too presumptuous, Frankie L. is an obvious person to
approach, but failing that that a crossover person could be me, but
tbh I'm not really sure how a PSC would actually benefit UbuntuGIS or
OSGeo. A PSC is good for making strategic and political decisions, but
95% of our issues are technical ones where the wider pool of
developers participate in "may the soundest idea win". The main
strategic decision we have right now is the repo re-naming, which I
think most of us are in fair agreement about anyway.
I'm all for breathing life into the project in whatever way we can,
but at the same time am concerned about adding new layers of
bureaucracy which might morph into a time+energy sink/inefficiency,
and avoiding the situation of too many chiefs & not enough braves.
Another thing to be concerned with in small groups like ours is to
avoid the appearance of a cabal, where new contributors don't feel
part of the technical decision making group, and we desperately need
those new contributors to be part of the technical decision making
group.. On the other hand I fully accept Alan's concerns about his
bus factor, in DebianGIS for a long time we've relied on Frankie
in the same way.
just some thoughts,
Hamish
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